How to: Fishtail Braid Video

What inspired the braid?

Well, what inspired the braid is the designer in the first place. They wanted something really Irish, Scottish, a girlfriend of a warrior.

I like that, a warrior girlfriend.

So we're trying to combine what is in a clothes with a hair.

I love it.

And when you open it up and--

So you make it a [unknown]

Yes. You play around it, it just gets messier so it's not gonna look so shiny and it gets more volume like you just--

Look at that.

It gets wider and shorter.

Oh, I like that.

So you can easily plays around afterwards.

And then you're gonna weave the 2 braids together?

Exactly. So that's why we went for a fish tail.

Pretty.

They're a lot easier than they seem. It just look complicated. That's what's so cool about them. It starts off like a regular braid.

Okay.

And then what happens is you just split it and the key is keeping your thumb secure in the middle. You pull from the outside and you bring it in and you hold your thumb there and you pull from the outside and you bring it in and you hold your thumb there. Once it gets started, then it's just all there. It does not look like fabric.

It's beautiful.

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